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Monday, March 5, 2012

The Decklist Out update + Glossary of Pokémon TCG!

Hi everyone!

I've worked really hard the past few days to make this update to happen. The State Championships are on their way Next Destinies was released a while ago. So, it's about a time for me to update The Decklist Out with a whole new over 20 decklists that all are updated with Next Destinies! I hope you find the lists useful for your play testing and that you can link it to the new players that are still wondering what kind of decks does this format have.

I didn't stop updating The Deck Out to The Decklist Out. I felt that my site missed something and while scrolling around the internet, it came to me - of course, I was missing a Pokémon TCG Glossary, which can explain terms and history of Pokémon TCG for newer and even for experienced players. To make the Glossary of Pokémon TCG as good as possible, I need your input for it. Please check it out and let me know in the comments or by e-mail if it misses terms/abbreviations or something else. Every suggestion is welcome so that I can make it as comprehensible as possible. I'm pretty sure that I missed something since it was such a huge job to make it happen.

I'll post the Glossary of Pokémon TCG to this entry so everyone can take a quick look at it. Let me know what I missed and enjoy the renewed decklists of The Deck List Out!

Glossary
of Pokémon TCG

Game
terms

Metagame: A term that describes the
decks played in a certain area. For example, if there are lot of Eelektrik
based decks in your State Championships, you can say that Eelektrik variants
are metagame decks. Metagame is also often used to describe the current format’s
most played decks.

Modified: The format that most people play. It usually consists of the last 7-11 sets that
were released. All Premier rated
tournaments are played in the Modified format.

Baby Killer - An attack or Pokémon that can damage an opponent's benched
Pokémon for 30 or more damage.
Broken Card - A card that "breaks" the playing environment in a
TCG. In theory, any card that exceeds the average power given its
circumstances. It’s a card that you either play or play against. A great
example of a broken card in HGSS-NEX format is Mewtwo EX.

Tech – Usually one card that helps
against bad-matchups. Tech can also be a one card in the deck that is
surprising and non-expected thus giving an advantage for the player playing the
tech. For example, Terrakion tech in Zekrom/Eelektrik.

Yyber, uuber, 00ber, üüber etc. –
Broken.

KO’d – Knocked Out.

OHKO – One Hit Knock Out. When a Pokémon
is Knocked Out with a single attack. 2HKO - 2 Hit Knock
Out. When a Pokemon is Knocked out after
2 attacks.3HKO - 3 Hit Knock Out.
When a Pokemon is Knocked out after 3 attacks.
4HKO - 4 Hit Knock Out. When a Pokemon is Knocked Out after 4
attacks.

T1 – Turn 1.T2 - Turn 2.T3 – Turn 3. etc.

Combo – Combination of 2 or more
cards that work well together. For example Reshiram and Typhlosion Prime form a
very simple and efficient combo.

Stall – Stalling can mean two
things. Negative stall is when a player slow-plays deliberately because he/she
is in a prize lead and would lose the game if playing with a normal game pace.
Stalling can also mean when any Pokémon is stucked as an active Pokémon due an
attack. For example, Vanilluxe deck can be considered as stalling because it
auto-paralyzes the opponent almost every turn.

Rotation – Rotation happens usually
once a year after World Championships. In a rotation, the oldest modified sets
are deleted from the current modified format to make the metagame new and fresh
every year.

Net-Deck: Taking a
list found online and running that exact list or a list that is almost similar.
In my opinion, net-decking is one of the best ways to learn any card game.

N00b, newbie etc. – A new,
inexperienced player.

Pro – Players, who has had notable
success in tournaments during his playing years.

Typo – Usually a typing error. (Very
usual in my blog text’s, lol)

GG: Good game. You should say
this to your opponent, whenever your tournament game ends.

FTW: For the win

Top Deck: The card that a player draws at the beginning of their turn.
When saying that someone top decked something, it usually means that they drew
something extremely useful and game-changing from their top deck.

Swiss: A style of play that Pokemon uses in its tournaments where
players with similar records are paired together. For example, a player who won 4 games and
lost 4 games, will probably be paired with someone else who won 4 games and
lost 4.

Top Cut: A series of rounds a kin to a tournament that is played after
Swiss Rounds. For example, after 4 Swiss
rounds an event might have 4 players “top cut.”
Which means there would be two games with those 4 players, and the
winner of those two games would play each other.

Snipe: Attacking one Pokemon on your opponent’s bench. Usually leads to
KO.

Play Test: To practice
playing your deck.

Spread: Damaging
multiple Pokemon on your opponent’s bench.

Tier: A grouping of decks together.
For example, the best decks in the format would be considered “Tier 1.”
The second best decks would be considered “Tier2” decks etc.

Professor - a professional/18+ player
that has undergone professor test to become a Pokémon Professor.

TO – Tournament Organizer

LO – League Owner. Usually the show owner, where the league is located.

LL – League Leader. The leader of league, who helps new players to get
into the game.
Veteran – An experienced, knowledgeable player of Pokémon TCG that has been
playing from the early days of Base Set.

Archetype deck: A particular distinctive type of deck. Archetype
decks are usually closely related to metagame decks and even though they have
the same supporting Pokémon (for example Eelektrik(NVI), they can use different
attackers.
Rogue deck: A deck that not only isn't an archetype, but is also doing
something in a new – unexpected way. For example MagneRock in the season
2010-2011. Stall deck: Uses high HP Pokemon like Chansey(BS) and Lickitung(BS)
to stall while maxing out on (Super) Energy Removal, Scoop Up and Pokémon
Center. The goal of this kind of deck is
to deck the opponent. Newer versions of this deck pop out all the time. Good
examples are decks like: Dark Steelix, Steelix Prime, Ross.dec and Wailord.dec.
The newer versions of these decks can win on prizes as well as decking out.

Trap Deck: Meant to leave your opponent with little or no options on
their first few turn by using The Rocket's Trap, Imposter Oaks Revenge, and
Rocket's Sneak Attack. Newer version have used Absol(SW), Team Galactic’s Mars,
Team Galactic’s Wager, N, Rocket’s Admin and Cyrus’ Initiative to achieve the
same goal. Sablelock that won the U.S. Nationals in 2010 was a trap deck.

Haymaker deck: Deck that focuses on big basic Pokémon with quick,
energy-efficient attacks and relatively high HP. It was named after Hitmonchan,
the original basis of the deck, "Haymaker" is Hitmonchans first
attack when translated from Japenese. (A haymaker is a general term for a
Knockout punch in boxing.) Main Pokemon: Hitmonchan, Scyther, Electabuzz etc. Newer
versions of Haymaker decks arise in every format and one good example of a new
Haymaker deck is 6 Corners.

Modified – The current format of
every season. For example, at the moment the current modified comprehends sets
from HGSS to Next Destinies.

Unlimited – A format, where every
card excluding ______’s Pikachu and Ancient Mew are allowed to be used.

Limited - A format for playing the game that restricts the sets that are
playable. For example, a pre-release is
a limited format.

Draft - A form of
play where each player has several packs.
For each pack, the player opens it and picks one card and then passes it
to the right. The next player then picks a card and then passes it to the
right. This is continued until each pack
is opened. Decks are built by the cards
you pull from the boosters + Basic energy cards. Draft is usually played with
40-card decks and with 4-prize games.

Mutant Draft - A draft where evolution lines can be made by type. For example, you can evolve a basic Fire
Basic Pokemon like Growlithe into a Stage 1 Fire Pokemon like Magmortar and
that into a Stage 2 Fire Pokemon like Blaziken.

Pre-Release - A form of tournament play. A tournament helf before the
release of a set. Players can join the
event for $20-30. They are given 6-8 boosters
in the beginning of the tournament and each person makes a deck of 40 cards
from those boosters + Basic energy cards.

Tournaments

BR – Battle RoadCC – City ChampionshipsSPT/ States – State ChampionshipsRegionals – Regional ChampionshipsNats – National ChampionshipsLCQ/Grinder/Last Chance Qualifier – A
tournament, the day before Worlds, where the last invitations to World
Championships are distributedWCS/Worlds – World Championships –
the main tournament of the year, where people all over the World are gatheredSTS - Super Trainer Showdown – the
World Championships of WoTC -eraTMB - Tropical Mega BattlePR: Pre-ReleaseECC – European Challenge Cup – a big annual European-wide tournament
located in the Netherlands
Prague Cup - A big annual European-wide tournament located in the Czech Republic

Apprentice: An old software that allows you to play-test the Pokemon game.Redshark: Probably the most popular software that allows you to
play-test Pokemon online.PTCGO: The official Pokémon TCG software, which is still in Beta-testing

Play Points - Points that are given out by Play! Pokemon for attending leagues and tournaments. The larger the tournament is, the more play
points you will earn.

Championship Points - Points that
are given for placing high in tournaments.
Invitations to World Championships are given out based on Championship
points.

League: A place to play the game. League are usually held at card shops
or public places like a libraries etc.

Rating - The Premier Rating that each player has. Points are given you in from a tournament if
you win a game and taken away whenever you lose a game. Each player’s rating starts at 1600 in the
beginning of the season. Rating will decide who gets the invite if Championship
Points are even.

SP - A type of Pokemon that
were released in the Platinum sets. They
are all basic Pokemon. For example Weavile G is a basic Pokémon.

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Hey Esa. Great job with the decklist out update! I bet you've got a lot of deck analyses coming up, but if I could request one it'd be the Mew Prime variant Mees used as ECC.

I love the deck as a whole and always love a try at Mew Prime, but I have a big question about his deck I was hoping you could answer.

WHY CHANDELURE NDE!?

In my testing with the deck Chandelure NDE does nothing for the matchups. If it's meant as a see off target against ZekEels, then it's only really useful if you go first. Otherwise Zekeels just finds a way with manual attach due to your low damage output + Maybe one eel. They can also dedicate themselves to getting 2 eels first turn since you saw off chandelure and clearly won't be doing heavy damage (i.e. their attackers have staying power).

And aside from that, i don't see it being useful. I've taken mine out for a 2nd Jumpluff (too many games with a Jumpluff prized) and really enjoyed the results. It' a fun deck to play and certainly has potential in this metagame.

Yeah, sure. I'll be making a lot of different deck articles after Mewtwo EX -series and I can do about MeesieMew as well. It sure is an interesting deck! I'll do some testing with it and after that I'll make an article of it.

Sounds great :) If I could recommend anything for the testing, I took out a level ball for a pluspower. Very useful addition for eviolited Mons. Also good for getting the necessary damage with Mew against a CMT that isn't playing enough on the bench for mass attack to work.